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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Lets split comp.lang.ada into multiple groups to confine flames
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.171942.26302@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <BzCs15.B28@gdls.CSCTMD.COM> <62879@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:19:42 GMT
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- In <62879@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
-
- >In article <BzCs15.B28@gdls.CSCTMD.COM> tarcea@gdls.CSCTMD.COM (Glenn Tarcea) writes:
- >> Can we please stay on the topic of discussing Ada, and Ada in
- >> real-world systems. All languages have their strengths and weaknesses
- >> and I am tired of hearing religous comparisons of why either Ada is
- >> better than language X or language X is better than Ada. Maybe a news
- >> group called comp.lang.religion should be started for these stupid discussions.
-
- >good posting, but how about a real division-
-
- >make comp.lang.ada obsolete and create a small set of groups instead.
-
- > some suggestions
-
- > comp.lang.advocacy - for the flame wars
- > comp.lang.programmer - for discussions of design/development Ada language issues
- > (or comp.lang.technical or better name?)
- > comp.lang.announce - moderated, low volume important announcements
- > of meetings, products, standards, new mandates :) etc
- > comp.lang.misc - catch all
-
- Uh, I think you're probably going to have some problems getting this
- past all the other language groups, since it seems to assume that
- 'comp.lang.programmer' assumes Ada. Now, I can't speak for anyone
- else, but I'm SURE I've programmed computers in other languages
- besides Ada.
-
- Now, I might vote for a comp.lang.announce, but I don't know that I
- would want someone dedicated to ANY language 'moderating' it. Once
- again, it assumes that 'comp.lang' equates to 'comp.lang.ada'. I
- suspect this is a real bad assumption.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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